Compiling on dual core system

Ah, right, Ive just added -j2 to the build command which seemed to give me two instances of make, but your right it didnt really speed things up, the process hogging all the cpu during build was java.exe with make using around 5% or so.

Im thinking of running quartus and Nios IDE under Ubuntu which ive got on my laptop, will the 64bit version of Quartus etc. be much faster than the 32bit version im running on windows XP at the moment?

Regards

Neil

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originally posted by slacker@Apr 5 2007, 09:40 AM

if you're using windows, i'd advocate running 'make -j2 -s' from a command shell after you've built, initially from within the ide. there might be some way to turn this switch on, automatically, within the ide that i'm not aware of...

on linux, this should work, but i'm not sure if the cygwin environment (used in windows) allows you to do this. also, keep in mind that the largest source of "slowness" when using windows is that cygwin layer. linux doesn't have this problem and is, therefore, significantly faster.

regards,

- slacker

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